We put our psychotic kewpie doll killer on every cover for no reasons other than to appeal to sex-starved fanboys...but that's not enough! Nor is just ONE Harley Quin, so we've xeroxed a fleet of them for everyone's possible fantasy.

Grayson

If the sensational character find of 1940 can't make you read spy comics, NO ONE can!

Catwoman

Turns out no one likes Fish Mooney in COMICS either! The leathery spandex is in the mail, boys.

"Wow" isn't quite the word I'm thinking of, but it'll have to do in the absence of anything of the expletive variety.

My first reaction was that Wonder Woman finally got her stupid Jim Lee collar and wondering why they can't let go of the Greek warrior image and just make Diana a superhero.

Then...wow. It's like the '90s just got randomly barfed back up onto the post-New52 DCU (doo-be-doo-be-doo). But with more sitcom expressions instead of the universal constipation grimace.

In fact, weren't most of these designs (including, I believe, hooded Hal) used in that forgettable Elseworld where aliens enslaved Earth? Ah, yes. Part one and part two.

I read a brief blurb on the Harley Quinn thing, and apparently they're going for ethnic diversity, which I'm sure won't end up seeming horribly offensive. And is non-beaver Harley holding that idiotic "haunted comic" from Multiversity? Probably not, but that got too stupid too fast, so it wouldn't surprise me.

And yes, the bat-armor might be the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. That, and the recurring "laser warning" symbol on the comics, which I assume aren't actual warnings about lasers, because that would be odd...er.

For a second I thought they were making a comic book about Archer, and then realized it was Dick Grayson. But man...he does look nice!

Wonder Woman on the other hand...did someone tell her to put on every last damned outfit in her closet all at once? Yeesh!

I rather liked the Superman in the t-shirt and jeans and work boots back in the (recent) day, but now he just looks like a thug. A mean thug.

The whole thing with Hal Jordan going off on his own, is just...stupid. Hal is like Beau Brummel...he barely exists if he doesn't have an admiring audience. Plus he would NEVER cover up his hair! Hal peeks at himself in mirrors and store windows all the time!

*urgh*

Also, can we please throw both Lobo and Deathstroke into the sun or something?

Sally; I think Wonder Woman went shopping with Imperiex. Or DC (as is typical) has overreacted to longstanding criticism of her bareness, threw up its hand and said "FINE! ALL THE CLOTHES SHE WILL WEAR ALL THE CLOTHES ALL THE TIME!"

Not to rain on the mock parade, but this all seems pretty innocuous to me. I mean I have zero interest in Deathstroke or hoddie Hal or Lobo, but if other people enjoy it, good for them.

The latest round of Superman changes are par for the course. The character is a cultural icon but one who doesn't easily fit into a modern aesthetic so there is always going to be some experimentation and push-pull.

Bat-bunny looks silly but there is no DC property more adaptable. Plus Snyder has earned the benefit of the doubt and the right to make some mistakes.

Poor Wonder Woman - the outfit is patently ridiculous but it reveals an interesting truth. There are fans on the internet who love to bash DC for micromanaging their creators and not letting them tell the stories they want. Well, welcome to the Dark Side of Creative Freedom. Because I believe that outfit is 100% what David and Meredith Finch intended.

At one time, appreciation for BTAS was like a jolt of creative adrenaline for the character and his world. Has nostalgia for that program has become a creative straightjacket?

On the Harley thing - I thought the sales of that book are being driven by the "new, expanding" audience not by traditional fan boys; that it was the success of Harley and the revamped Batgirl that are prompting the spirit of experimentation on non-core titles? The book isn't to my taste so I don't read it but I don't really begrudge its success.

Diversity of tone and content - if its real - means that there should be things I don't like as well as things I do like. If DC produces 49 titles and one person actually wants to buy all 49 titles and enjoys all 49 titles, then they've failed. And the reverse is true as well.

As much as certain segments of the internet love to rag on Dan Didio, the truth is that the guy is basically the archetype of the fanboy - filled with weird fixations, an inability to distinguish "nostalgia" from "iconic", character prejudices, pet obsessions and utterly unwilling to see anyone else's point of view. So I thought the most revelatory part of the interviews they gave was Jim Lee admitting that DC needed to publish books that may not appeal to his and Didio's personal tastes. DC would have been better off if they had come to that realization a decade ago but better late than never.

"Dan Didio, the truth is that the guy is basically the archetype of the fanboy - filled with weird fixations, an inability to distinguish "nostalgia" from "iconic", character prejudices, pet obsessions and utterly unwilling to see anyone else's point of view"

I think we just discovered THE TRUTH about the first arc of Superman/Batman. Yeah, Wonder Woman took Supergirl to Themyscira to train. Yeah, train all right. In the sapphic arts, that is. Lois was probably in on the whole scheme as well (to keep Kara away from Clark AND take Wonder Woman out as a rival by having her focus on getting another kind of sweet sweet kryptonian loving).